Conservatives Fall Behind

October 6, 1985

LONDON — The Labor Party has a seven-point lead, 39 percent to 32 percent, over Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives, according to a poll by the Harris organization. It also showed for the first time that a plurality believes the Labor Party's Neil Kinnock would make a better national leader than Thatcher. A poll published Friday in The Times also showed a swing to Labor. The Liberal-Social Democratic alliance was supported by 27 percent in the Harris poll.